Palace Skateboards To Open Its First Mainland China Store in Shanghai With an Exclusive Capsule That Makes the City the Point

Summary

• Palace Skateboards opens its first standalone store in mainland China on May 23, located in Shanghai’s Jing’an District within the restored Zhangyuan heritage complex
• A Shanghai-exclusive capsule launches alongside the opening, spanning a biker jacket, sports jersey, hoodies, T-shirts, and accessories featuring Shang-Hi branding, a Chinese zodiac rabbit mascot, and graphics drawn from Shanghai’s city heritage
• The standout piece is a Tri-ferg T-shirt paying direct homage to the Oriental Pearl Tower, one of Shanghai’s most iconic landmarks

Palace Skateboards is set to open its first mainland China store on May 23 in Shanghai’s Zhangyuan complex, and it lands with an exclusive capsule that puts the city front and center. The collection spans a biker jacket, sports jersey, hoodies, T-shirts, and accessories, all built around Shang-Hi branding and graphics that draw directly from Shanghai’s cultural heritage.

The capsule is where the opening makes its most direct statement. Shang-Hi branding runs across the collection alongside Palace’s signature waving Tri-ferg hand, while a rabbit mascot drawn from the Chinese zodiac appears throughout as a recurring character that roots the drop in a specifically Chinese cultural register. The graphics pull from the city itself: Shanghai’s skyline, its history, and the visual vocabulary of a place that has spent a century being one of the world’s most culturally layered cities. The Tri-ferg T-shirt paying homage to the Oriental Pearl Tower is the collection’s standout piece and its clearest statement of intent. The tower has been a symbol of Shanghai’s particular relationship between heritage and forward momentum since its completion in 1994, and putting it on a Tri-ferg is the kind of local reference that only lands correctly when a brand has done the work to understand where it is.

The store itself provides the backdrop. Located within Zhangyuan, a restored heritage complex in Jing’an District originally constructed in the late Qing dynasty, the space takes inspiration from traditional Chinese gardens, reinterpreting ponds, pavilions, and walkways through a contemporary lens. It is consistent with Palace’s broader store philosophy, which has produced spaces in Shibuya, Seoul, and New York that each belong to their surroundings rather than imposing on them. In Shanghai, that approach extends to the product as much as the architecture: a capsule that does not merely acknowledge the location but builds from it entirely.

For a brand whose entire retail DNA is built around being precisely itself in every market it enters, the Shang-Hi drop is the purest expression of that philosophy yet applied to a new geography. Palace has always understood that the best local tribute is one that comes from genuine engagement rather than surface-level reference. The rabbit, the tower, the Shang-Hi wordplay, three details that could only exist in this context and in no other.

Palace Skateboards’ Shanghai store opens Saturday, May 23 at the Zhangyuan complex, Jing’an District. The Shanghai-exclusive capsule is available in-store only.

Palace Skateboards Shanghai
Unit W1-1A, Zhangyuan
280 Maoming North Road
Jing’an District
Shanghai, China